ABSTRACT
Chapter 5, “Turning Climate Crises into Climate Solutions in Downsizing (2017) and Woman at War (2018)” analyzes climate fiction films addressing consequences of consumption, beginning with the super-hero driven Our Man Flint (1966), Naked Gun 2½ (1991), and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Primarily, the chapter pushes the climate fiction genre and eco-hero definitions toward the solutions offered in Woman at War, with a nod toward the sf answers embedded in the anti-overpopulation messages of Downsizing (2017). Unlike narratives of most climate fiction films, these movies marry eco-disaster to comedy. This chapter examines whether this marriage successfully conveys the dire consequences of human-caused climate change.
